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...letter to the two students, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley “Ibby” Nathans rejected the notion of repressing unpopular views...
...using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of most of the American people, while enriching corporations"), but his solutions, including the removal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia, come perilously close to appeasement - the notion that if you just give the terrorists what they want, they'll leave you alone. This is impractical for as imperial a country as the U.S. - which is, one strongly suspects, Zinn's point. "We have to go through a real revolution in our thinking," he claims, "and no longer think...
...Especially for guys, there is a notion that we would be afraid to reveal that vulnerability, but we do,” he says.“The worst thing is feeling that you should have said something to someone after you leave, even if it’s not positive...
...noted behaviorist. In those days it was fervently believed that babies were born without any imprint whatsoever. They were a “tabula rasa” and the parents had two years in which to form the personality. Professor Skinner was such a fervent believer in this notion that he invented a box (with holes in the bottom and screening on all sides) in which to place a baby so as to have total control over the baby’s stimuli...
Though she flirted with the notion of studying medieval literature after graduation, she quickly dismissed the idea as an impossibility. At Radcliffe she had taken a class on Chaucer and found she liked the poet’s work, but left it behind to pursue the more practical classes in modern literature that she would need to become an English teacher...